Delighted Tom Daley starts pool party

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Bronze was the first individual diving medal for Britain since 1960 and completed a dream come true for the youngster from Plymouth

When Tom Daley was 12, he sat in his bedroom at home in Plymouth and drew his
dream. Beneath the words “my ambition” was a diver doing a handstand on the
ten-metre board, with the Olympic rings and “London 2012” either side of him.

Those symbols, engraved on the bottom of the pool, were the last thing the
18-year-old saw before taking flight to a bronze medal in the ten-metre
platform final at the Aquatics Centre on Saturday.

“On the last dive, I looked down at the pool and my eye-line was exactly where
those London 2012 Olympic rings are,”

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Daley gets through an inward reverse pike on Saturday

August 13 2012 Graham Hughes- The Times

Daley gets through an inward reverse pike on Saturday

August 13 2012 Graham Hughes- The Times

A delighted Daley shows off the reward for his fine set of dives

August 13 2012 Steven Paston/Action Images/reuters

Daley was allowed a re-dive after his first attempt was disrupted y camera flash

August 13 2012 Graham Hughes- The Times

Daley's nailed his re-dive to start a sequence that would lead to bronze